Resources

Story Source

• The Story in the Jargon File
• The Story of Mel in Wikipedia

Guides and References

• The 'Story of Mel' Explained - by James Seibel
• The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated - by Erik Brunvand
• Macho programmers, drum memory and a forensic analysis of 1960s machine code
• The second decade of programming: Big Iron
• Tube Time: Mel, Blackjack, and the LGP-30

Archives

• Librascope Memories
• Vintage Computing

Mel

• Mel's Writeup for the Blackjack Program
• Mel's Code
• Bill_von_Hagen@transarc.com references Mel

LGP-30

• LGP-30 Manuals
• LGP - 30 PROGRAMMING MANUAL
• Computer Program written in Act III for the LGP-30
• LGP-30 - technikum29 - living museum

RPC-4000

• RPC-4000 Manuals, Code Samples and Other Documents Archive

Other

• Vacuum Tube Blackjack
• Less Is More in the Fifties: Encounters between Logical Minimalism and Computer Design during the 1950s
• Awesome Computer History